Improvement in boxes for preserving cake and bread



A. R. LEDDUX.

vBoxes for Preserving Cake and Bread.

No. 135,433. Patenredrebwnma.

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AM, mami/mummia co. Mmmm/f1; Pnocss) UNITED STATES PATEN FFICE.

ALBERT R. LEDOUX, OF OORNWALL LANDING, NEW YORK.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. E35A33, dated February 4, 1873.

To all lwhom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT It. LEDoUx, of Cornwall Landing', in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Box for Preserving Cake and Bread, of which the following is a specication:

Figure l is a detail vertical sect-ion of my improved box taken through the line x x, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a detail horizontal section of the same taken through the line y y, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved box or receptacle for preserving cake, bread, and other articles from becoming dry and being thus injured. The invention consists in the combination of the pan to receive a moist sponge and the perforated plate to support the articles to be kept moist with the box A B, as hereinafter fully described.

A is a box, which may be made rectangular in form, or of any other desired shape, and which is provided with a closely-fitting cover, B. In the bottom of the box A is placed a pan, O, which may be loose or permanently attached to said bottom, as may be desired.

`The pan C is provided with a cover or plate,

D, in which are formed numerous small holes. E is a sponge, which is placed in the pan C.

In using the device, the sponge is moistened or wet, but not sufficiently so as to drop or run, and isplaced in the pan O. The Aperforated plat-e D is then put in, and the cake, bread, or other article is then laid upon the perforated plate D and the cover B of the box A is closed. By this arrangement the air within the box A B is kept lnoistened by the slow evaporation ot the water from the sponge E, so that the cake7 bread, or other article will be kept in its normal state, and will be preserved from becoming dry and thus unt for use when required.

The sponge E may be remoistened as often as may be necessary.

By this means it will no longer be necessary to put articles requiring to be kept moist in the cellar, but they may be kept wherever most convenient. p

Havin g thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secureby Letters Pat ent- The combination of the pan O to receive a moist sponge, and the perforated plate D to support the articles to be kept moist, with the box A B, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

ALBERT R. LEDOUX.

Witnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, T. B. MosEER. 

